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Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Imperfection in the acquisition process means that point clouds are often corrupted with noise. Building on recent advances in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

High-quality point cloud data is a critical foundation for tasks such as autonomous driving and 3D reconstruction. However, LiDAR-based point cloud acquisition is often affected by various disturbances, resulting in a large number of noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ge Zhang , Chunyang Wang , Bin Liu , Guan Xi

A 3D point cloud is often synthesized from depth measurements collected by sensors at different viewpoints. The acquired measurements are typically both coarse in precision and corrupted by noise. To improve quality, previous works denoise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Dong Tian

Point cloud learning has lately attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications in many areas, such as computer vision, autonomous driving, and robotics. As a dominating technique in AI, deep learning has been successfully used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yulan Guo , Hanyun Wang , Qingyong Hu , Hao Liu , Li Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun

This paper presents a novel non-local part-aware deep neural network to denoise point clouds by exploring the inherent non-local self-similarity in 3D objects and scenes. Different from existing works that explore small local patches, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chao Huang , Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Point clouds are an increasingly relevant data type but they are often corrupted by noise. We propose a deep neural network based on graph-convolutional layers that can elegantly deal with the permutation-invariance problem encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Francesca Pistilli , Giulia Fracastoro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

As a collection of 3D points sampled from surfaces of objects, a 3D point cloud is widely used in robotics, autonomous driving and augmented reality. Due to the physical limitations of 3D sensing devices, 3D point clouds are usually noisy,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Chaojing Duan , Siheng Chen , Jelena Kovačević

Reconstruction of a continuous surface of two-dimensional manifold from its raw, discrete point cloud observation is a long-standing problem. The problem is technically ill-posed, and becomes more difficult considering that various sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Zhangjin Huang , Yuxin Wen , Zihao Wang , Jinjuan Ren , Kui Jia

Point cloud processing as a fundamental task in the field of geomatics and computer vision, has been supporting tasks and applications at different scales from air to ground, including mapping, environmental monitoring, urban/tree structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhenxin Zhang , Zhihua Xu , Yuwei Cao , Ningli Xu , Shuye Wang , Shen'ao Cui , Zhen Li , Rongjun Qin

Point clouds acquired from scanning devices are often perturbed by noise, which affects downstream tasks such as surface reconstruction and analysis. The distribution of a noisy point cloud can be viewed as the distribution of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Shitong Luo , Wei Hu

Due to limitations in acquisition equipment, noise perturbations often corrupt 3-D point clouds, hindering down-stream tasks such as surface reconstruction, rendering, and further processing. Existing 3-D point cloud denoising methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Wenqiang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Duoduo Xue , Ziyang Zheng , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoqing Wu , Alexa Nawotki , Jochen Garcke

Point cloud obtained from 3D scanning is often sparse, noisy, and irregular. To cope with these issues, recent studies have been separately conducted to densify, denoise, and complete inaccurate point cloud. In this paper, we advocate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaesung Choe , Byeongin Joung , Francois Rameau , Jaesik Park , In So Kweon

Mesh denoising is a fundamental problem in digital geometry processing. It seeks to remove surface noise, while preserving surface intrinsic signals as accurately as possible. While the traditional wisdom has been built upon specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Honghua Chen , Mingqiang Wei , Jun Wang

Point cloud denoising is a fundamental and crucial challenge in real-world point cloud applications. Existing quantitative evaluation metrics for point cloud denoising methods are implemented in a supervised manner, which requires both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhiyong Su , Jincan Wu , Yonghui Liu , Zheng Li , Weiqing Li

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

The digitalization of society is rapidly developing toward the realization of the digital twin and metaverse. In particular, point clouds are attracting attention as a media format for 3D space. Point cloud data is contaminated with noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kosuke Nakayama , Hiroto Fukuta , Hiroshi Watanabe

Depth perception is considered an invaluable source of information for various vision tasks. However, depth maps acquired using consumer-level sensors still suffer from non-negligible noise. This fact has recently motivated researchers to…